@ratscout Great response and thanks for the tips
I am transitioning from Wattpad over to Tapas. I have 81 followers on Wattpad and that's without trying. My one story will hit 5k reads this month or next and my other story has over a thousand. I get comments and votes, but Wattpad is such a dead end app. I gave up because they don't have any of the immediate opportunities that Tapas does. There's a possibility that by some miracle Wattpad'll somehow find you or look at one of your millions of applications to get featured, but here... 100 subscribers on a story and you get to monetize. Already they're doing infinitely better than any other publishing app out there. Not to mention they're accepting submissions now for new content for comics and they're expanding with other opportunities.
I think we're in a good space. Tapas has just added novels, whereas apps like Wattpad are saturated and your stuff hardly gets seen (same with traditional platforms like Amazon). Here, you have opportunities for income that aren't offered elsewhere and you've got potential from a platform that's still growing.
I've got three stories up that I'm updating weekly and around 52 followers. It's going slow and steady but by providing more options for readers, I think you increase your chances.
I'd stick with this platform and continue to put up content and diversify. Radish (another app) pretty much only does romance and requires applications, Wattpad has only helped published around 100 books and has 70 millions users (meaning the percentage of any real growth is so small), A03 might be good for fanfic and niche fiction, but you'll need to set up a patreon that you can't directly advertise if you want to make some income... etc
I say keep writing, upload regularly, chat with your readers, and don't forget your regular social media. I advertised my stories on tapas on instagram and someone who's followed my social media for years read one of my books for the first time. He made an account and subscribed. You never know
I might just be an optimistic pile of mush right now, but I hope everyone keeps writing.